The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27
Washington County.
Barre.-.Goddard Seminary.

THE lyceum was held as usual last Fri
day evening, with the following programme:
Piano solo, Mary Soule. Recitation, Lola
Allbie. Song. Harry Foster. Debate, d" Re
S0lred, That the statesman is greater
civilizer than the poet; affirmative, Mr..
Wheeock and Mr. Hawley; negative, Mr..
Lane and Mr. Bates. The question was
decided by the board of decision and the
house in favor of the negative. Song, Miss
Alice Currier. Defamation, Mr.. Brennan.
Charade, Misses Soule and Skinner. -
Kate Bowles spent Sunday with her friends
at Goddard. - Last Sunday evening, at
the church, Mr.. Dana made some very
worthy remarks on the Importance of re-
ligious instruction for the young, which
were highly appreciated.
Berlin.
o. b. BAILEY started Monday, the 25th,
for Colorado Springs to bring home his son
George, who went there last summer in
search of health. II is said he is very low.
- Charles Kimball runs his team to
Montpelier every day, bringing up grain
and merchandise for his customers, notwith-
standing the going is almost impossible for
everybody else. - Charles 7. Crandall
and wife have gone to Philadelphia. They
will visit friends in Boston and Maiden,
Mass, on the way. - The members
of the Congregational church will meet at
their Westinghouse on Friday afternoon at
two o'clock. 1t is hoped there will be a
full attendance.
East Calais.
B. f. WAY was in town over Sunday.
- Gertie Magoon of West Topsham is
at work for II. A. Jackman. - Tenney
Taplin has made three thousand two hun
dred pounds of sugar this season. - The
school-house is undergoing repairs.
East Montpelier.
MEETINGS will commence again at the
Il D..s. l. ral.,,
rem will preach next Sunday and Rev. S. g.
Hayford the Sunday following. Services
commence at eleven o'clock.
North Montpelier.
AFTER all the talk of short production OF
maple sugar, there is every indication that
1t will be fully an average season. -
! Our stage now runs upon wheels from
| Plainfield to East Calais, with the prospect
in few days of running through to Hard
wick. - We have had no services at the
East and North Universalist churches
through this month, but they are to begin
at the usual hours the first Sunday in May.
| - Fred NJ Snow, who has been quite i'll
with pneumonia, has so far recovered as to
be about again. The water in our
river was quite high during last week and
the first of this, but not up to high-water
marks of previous years, though high
enough to necessitate the stopping of work
in the wet-fnishing department of the
woolen factory here several days. -
! The singers in this vicinity have in prepara-
tion the charming operetta entitled The
Flower Queen" and propose to present il
to the public at Union vestry hall some time
the first or middle of May. We bespeak
! for II in advance a generous public patron
age. - Allie Chase, daughter of George
| w. Chase, Esq, of Calais, for two years
! past student at Seminary Hill, Montpelier
is to teach the school in our district this
summer. 60 Rev. S. c. Hayford will
Subject, Faith and confession" from
Romans X; 10.
Marshfield.
! Mrs. IRA MEARs of East Montpelier has
been visiting at A. G. Mears'. - Eli Ed
son and wife went TO st. Johnsbury last
week, visiting friends and attending con-
| ference. - r. Hudson has moved into
Mr.. Rand's house, S. Sulham has gone into
the rooms Hudson vacated - A tele-
gram brought news of the death, last
week, of the wife of Eugene Young, former
resident of this place, now living in Frank
| lin, n. III. Frank Young, a brother of
Eugene's, died at the same place. Both died
of typhoid fever Mrs. Shattuck is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. Wyman Lamberton,
and Mr.. Spaulding, late landlord of the
Octagon House in Barre, was visiting at
the same place last week. - Hazen Un-
derhill former resident is visiting in
| town.
Middlesex.
THE maple sugar crop in this town proves
| to be of full average quantity. Some have
had large yield. w b. McElroy has made
fifteen hundred pounds from three hundred
trees; w. b. Chamberlin, twenty-seven hun